Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Pretoria, the Ciskei vote was a way of trying to show that the whole homelands strategy was worth salvaging, despite a barrage of doubts about it even by the Afrikaner establishment. For months South African editorials have de cried the lack of progress toward making the black territories self-sufficient. Said the pro-government Johannesburg Citi zen: "It doesn't take a genius to know that homeland development has failed...
...signed statement, Chairman James E. Stewart complained: "The interest rate policy of the Federal Reserve System is driving the economy of the United States into self-destruction." Russell M. Rockwell, the owner of Rockwell Equipment Co. in Hamilton, Ohio, says sharply: "I don't think the Federal Reserve knows what it's doing. It's like a two-year-old kid squeezing the kitten to death, and he doesn't realize he's doing...
Still, this is a love story? Yes: of man as the eternally curious child and woman as the maternal source and resource. It is also, implicitly, the story of Jesus and Mary. Eddie is consumed by the dream of transcendence, of return to the modern godhead of the self. He is off on a perilous trip down through the memory of the race, and his only connection to reality is the umbilical cord of his need and, finally, his love for Emily. He often curls naked into her side as if wounded, seeking succor, reliving the Pieta. Again and again...
DIED. Peter Gregg, 40, U.S. driver who had dominated sports-car racing since 1971; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in St. Johns County, Fla. Gregg, who drove modified Porsches to victory in 47 races and six annual championships of the International Motor Sports Association, once said: "Winning is no longer that important. I just don't want these other guys...
...shorter than usual length, and child centered. But they are not childish, and most are as serious as any adult novel or history. It was because of the patronizing attitudes that greeted her work that Beatrix Potter denied creating for the young: "I write to please my self," she insisted. And P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, sardonically concurred: "I didn't write for children at all ... the idea simply didn't enter my head. I am bound to assume that there is such a field as children's books - I hear about it so often...